NFL Analysis
4/25/24
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Jordan Morgan 2024 NFL Draft: Combine Results, Scouting Report For Green Bay Packers OT
The 2024 NFL Draft is getting close, making it an excellent time to highlight some of the class' best players with scouting reports. Each report will include strengths, weaknesses and background information.
Here's our report on Jordan Morgan.
Jordan Morgan's 2024 NFL Combine Results
- Height: 6-foot-5
- Weight: 311
- 40-yard dash: 5.04
- 10-yard split: 1.70
- Vertical jump: 28"
- Broad jump: 9'2"
Jordan Morgan 2024 NFL Draft Scouting Report
Strengths
- Excellent size and length for the left tackle position. Plus athlete with light feet, outstanding balance and lateral agility.
- Comfortable and efficient kick slide with good knee bend and balance. Loose core with easy lateral movement.
- Showed a comfortable mirror in pass protection, staying with his fundamental technique and clean footwork.
- Excellent awareness and accelerated vision in pass protection recognizing and reacting to stunts and pressures.
- Mobility and balance getting outside, tracking second- and third-level defenders in the pin-pull and screen games.
- Played more of a finesse game than a strong power game. A movement athlete more than a country-strong left tackle.
- In 2023, competed and battled as a run blocker. In the run game, he showed excellent play strength with heavy hands.
- Play strength and heavy hands showed up on angle, leverage and drive blocks, such as kickouts and down blocks.
- Showed good athleticism and mobility to make blocks on the move in the run game. Fluid and flexible in space.
- Effective in 1-on-1 pass protection with desired lateral range, strike timing and anchor strength to win.
- Showed an understanding of hand usage in pass protection with the timing to re-set his hands when needed.
- Effective mirror and re-direct in pass protection when engaged early in down minimizing impact of short arms.
- Excellent athleticism to get out in front in the tunnel screen game. Balance and body control to strike on the move.
Weaknesses
- Needs to learn to better execute kick slide with his left foot. Tendency to step in place or gain little ground.
- Tendency to bend at the waist just before contact when challenged with speed-to-power and on the high side.
- Too many reps in his more vertical pass sets in which he dropped his head just before contact, losing vision.
- He is late with his hands at times in his deeper pass sets, allowing rushers to get inside of him and creating balance issues.
- Struggled at times in pass protection with inside counters. Showed a tendency to over-set with balance issues.
- Needs to get stronger throughout his body to be more effective anchoring versus speed-to-power pass rush.
- In 2023, again saw wide and late hands in pass protection allowing rushers to get into his chest and move him.
- On pass protection snaps, he was too upright out of his two-point stance, minimizing the length of the kick slide and opening the edge.
- At times, in pass protection, he did not kick slide to gain distance to get to his spot with the needed balance and base.
- At times, he bent at the waist and dropped his head when challenged to the high side. Outside foot got too far inside.
- Lateral range on vertical sets could be seen as an issue. Must be able to pass protect 1-on-1 on third down.
- Some vertical pass protection reps where he over-set, leaving him vulnerable to inside cross face counters.
- Had some technique and balance issues when he needed to anchor with strength versus speed-to-power rush.
NFL Transition
Morgan is one of the more intriguing tackle prospects in the 2024 draft, given his excellent size, body length and traits profile. Though his shorter arms could be a problem for some offensive line coaches in the NFL.
There is no question that he possesses the light feet and fluid athletic movement you want to see at the left tackle position. There will be many offensive line coaches that will not see him as an offensive tackle prospect because of his arm length but rather project they'll transition him into a guard prospect. Morgan has the needed traits to move inside to guard, with good size, play strength and more than enough physicality to make the transition relatively smooth. At guard, his narrow base and less than ideal lateral range would not be a concern,.
There were run game snaps at left tackle in which Morgan came off the ball low with excellent leverage, generating power through his hips and core. This helped him keep his feet moving to drive and sustain. That will be an absolutely necessary trait inside at guard.
Arm length will be a concern for some, but based on tape and his overall play traits, he can start his career at the left tackle position. The main question that coaches will need to answer is whether Morgan can pass protect 1-on-1 in third down — especially third and long situations. All offensive coordinators want to get all five eligible receivers out in routes without having to help their tackle with a tight end or running back throwing chip blocks or double teams.
Other Notes
Morgan stayed in state as a three-star recruit, playing for Arizona. He became the starting left tackle in the shortened COVID season of 2020. Morgan started 33 games in his final three seasons, all at left tackle, and was named First Team All-Pac 12 in 2023.
